Wailing Octopus

Beach of Dreams by H. De Vere Stacpoole.

Two sailors, Harbutt and Raft, discuss their plight as workers under the thumb of a wealthy owner. During a windstorm, Raft and his fellow hands must climb a mast of the three-master to control a rigging gone astray. Once they master that runaway rigging, they pause to watch another vessel in the distance. It's a ship many have seen before. We are introduced to the occupants of this new ship, the Gaston de Paris. The owner is Prince Selm, who loves the finest things in life, yet is drawn to the sea. His guests are an elderly eccentric woman, Madame de Warens, and her adopted daughter, Cleo de Bromsart, an unmarried 20-year-old who looks down on the lower classes. Madame de Warens is upset that Cleo has rejected Selm's proposal of marriage. Cleo, feeling an urge to go on deck, puts on storm gear and begins to climb the steps.

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Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts (version 2) by Frank R. Stockton.

Buccaneers and Pirates of our Coasts is a non-fiction, rollicking story of the origins of piracy and of the famous pirates of the coasts of the United States. The stories don't cast pirates in the glowing light of modern day renditions - in Stockton's stories, pirates are bad guys! - but the dramatic style makes them good fun to read, anyway!

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Submarine Boys' Lightning Cruise by Frank Gee Patchin.

Captain Jack Benson and Hal Hastings have been sailing in torpedo submarines a while now. But, there is new danger that they will have to get used to, having the actual torpedoes onboard! They will be trying out a new boat, named after Hal, with the Navy watching closely. But trouble is always close by.

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Pirates by Morgan Robertson.

A dozen men jailbreak from a naval prison, and steal the newest destroyer tied up at the docks to escape in: the fastest ship in the navy. However a young officer was the only one on board, and is now a part of the voyage to escape. Things get tense when he awakens, and finds his boyhood rival and enemy is one of the jailbreakers on board! Can the officer find a way to sabotage their escape, without being thrown overboard himself?

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Blue Ghost Mystery by Harold L. Goodwin.

When the ghost of a Civil War soldier, killed visiting his sweetheart across enemy lines, comes back to haunt the Virginian locals at an old mine, Rick Brant and his ex-marine colleague Scotty decide to investigate.

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Rip Foster Rides the Gray Planet by Harold L. Goodwin.

"Foster, Lieutenant, R. I. P.," blared the voice horn, and five minutes later Rip Foster was off into space on an assignment more exciting than any he had ever imagined. He could hardly believe his ears. Could a green young Planeteer, just through his training, possibly carry out orders like these? Sunny space, what a trick it would be! From the moment Rip boards the space ship Scorpius there is a thrill a minute. He and his nine daring Planeteers must cope with the merciless hazing of the spacemen commanding the ship, and they must outwit the desperate Connies, who threaten to plunge all of space into war.

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Boy Scouts in Russia by Harold L. Goodwin.

Thrown out of Russia by a powerful relative, a young American Boy Scout, Fred Waring, meets his Russian cousin, Boris Suvaroff, and together they discover the secrets of the advancing German army. Through perilous escapes, secret passages, and being captured as a spy (by both sides), they deliver their information to Russian intelligence. But Fred now has to face an obstacle even bigger than he had realized. John Blaine is a pseudonym of Harold L. Goodwin.

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Caves of Fear by Harold L. Goodwin.

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Golden Skull, A Rick Brant Science-Adventure Story by Harold L. Goodwin.

Rick Brant and his friends have another adventure in the Philippines. Together Rick, Scotty Chahda and Dr Briotti work to solve a mystery in the backdrop of Filipino culture and history.

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Flying Stingaree by Harold L. Goodwin.

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